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Re: od command
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Eric Blake |
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Re: od command |
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Fri, 18 Nov 2005 11:50:23 -0700 |
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FYI - the bug-textutils mailing list has moved to bug-coreutils; if you
got the old address from the output of 'od --help', then you probably
should upgrade your coreutils installation.
According to Vance, Jack D. on 11/18/2005 10:12 AM:
> Hello - can you please tell me what the numeric value is in the following
> output?
> "0000000 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00
> *
> 1415102464".
>
> The command used was "od -Ad -tx1" run on a wiped 10.0GB hard drive with
> 10,005,037,056 bytes.
"info od" may be helpful here. The output is telling you that the first
file offset at octal 0000000 consisted of all 00 bytes, then a * meaning
identical lines, up until offset octal 1415102464 at EOF.
- --
Life is short - so eat dessert first!
Eric Blake address@hidden
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